Dead terrorists don’t sell newspapers
November 9th, 2005
That must be the new quote, replacing “if it bleeds, it leads”. Because Meryl wonders how it’s possible that one of the most wanted terrorists in the world was captured and nobody’s talking about it:
The most feared terrorist in Asia, Azahari bin Husin, the man responsible for the two Bali bombings and an attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta, has blown himself up after being cornered by police in East Java.
Meryl, I see your question and raise you this one: How is it that I only found out about it through reading your blog?
Reuters top stories? Nope. AP? Not a chance. CNN? Andrea friggin’ Yates is a lead story but no sign of the news about bin Husin.
I guess successes in the vastly unpopular War on Terror would be conterproductive. Failures sell many more papers, right? Especially when Bush can be blamed for them.
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Failures mean fear, fears mean control.
Tre; what a crock.
Nobody buys a paper here, based on a psychopath becoming a non-person 1/2 way ’round the world.
If it didn’t make the news it’s because some clerk didn’t think it mattered. It’ll probably get picked up as word spreads…or not.
Anyway, cheers to Meryl and you for being on top of it!
This, on the other hand, will make the news;
http://www.itn.co.uk/news/50563.html
Happy now Tre?
I want to say something: I AM NOT Tré.
Fat DaninVan… i miss u
The estrogen detector just went off scale…
No one mistook you for me, guy.
Sure ‘nough, it was on CTV and in the Vancouver Sun yesterday.
They’re f**king INSANE!
http://channels.netscape.com/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1107&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20051113%2F1429983087.htm&sc=1107
what about this about one of the suicide bombers in England. His family got permission from the pommies (Prisioner Of her Majesty) to take his ‘remains’ back to Pakistan, and now they’re turning the grave into a shrine! Brits are pissed.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005520736,00.html
josh; you caught that on your way to ‘Page 3′ ?
Here’s more on the Amman slaughter…
http://mickhartley.typepad.com/blog/2005/11/voices_of_disse.html